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01.12.2015 | Poster presentation
Does tomosynthesis increase confidence in grading the suspicious appearance of a lesion? An audit of cancers diagnosed in the assessment clinic using tomosynthesis: initial experience at Avon Breast Screening Unit
verfasst von:
Gillian Clark, Alexandra Valencia
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research
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Sonderheft 1/2015
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Excerpt
Tomosynthesis is a new technology that is being used increasingly to evaluate the breast for assessment in the UK. It has, however, been approved as a screening tool in the United States, Canada and several European countries. We implemented tomosynthesis in the Assessment Clinic at Avon Breast Screening Unit (ABSU) last year as recommended by the NHSBSP. A retrospective audit of 134 consecutive cancers diagnosed from 9 June 2014 to 31 December 2014 was performed. The aim was to evaluate whether tomosynthesis gives additional information to increase the grading of mammographic features of a lesion seen on initial screening mammography and increase the assessor's confidence. …